Agenda for January 9th, 2024 at 9:30 US Central (15:30 UTC)

• Q/A

Attendees

• Matthew Cawood (TACC)
• Robert McLay (TACC)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent)
• Lev Gorenstein (Globus, UChicago)
• Jeremy Siadal (Intel)

Notes

• several questions/requests for changes by Jeremy (cfr. issue #679)
  • enhancement for declaring module conflicts
    • let module A declare that it conflicts with any future module X that could get loaded
  • modulerc files
    • more dynamic
  • dealing with read-only NFS mounts with a stack of provided modules
    • no control over changing them
• including module extensions in output of ml --terse avail (issue #667)
  • how to discriminate extensions from modules?
  • Matthew basically has it working, need to look into tests
• Honor MODULES_AUTO_HANDLING request (issue #680)
  • essentially transform a prereq into a depends_on under the hood
• Kenneth had some questions related to request in EasyBuild from Tmod developer on dropping condition when loading a module to prevent load storm guards
  • see easybuild-framework PR #4373
  • EasyBuild 5.0 is probably going to switch to using depends_on rather than load by default
• some back and forth on Lmod-users mailing list w.r.t. enabling tracing in a module file
  • use case is unclear
• Alexandre's PR to build Debian package for Lmod (PR #683)
• funky issue with zsh & FPATH (internal at TACC)
  • one some Linux distros, zsh version is in path to zsh command
  • problems occurs when building RPM with zsh 5.8 and then upgrading to zsh 5.9
  • only an issue with support for ksh is needed
  • FPATH is now changed when needed for different zsh versions

Next meeting

• Tue 6 Feb 2024, 15:30 UTC